Formalising Argumentative Story-based Analysis of Evidence

Floris Bex, Henry Prakken & Bart Verheij

In the present paper, we provide a formalised version of a
merged argumentative and story-based approach towards the
analysis of evidence. As an application, we are able to show how
our approach sheds new light on inference to the best
explanation with case evidence. More specifically, it will be
clarified how the events in a case story that are considered to be
proven abductively explain the otherwise unproven events of the
case story. We compare our approach with existing AI work on
modelling legal reasoning with evidence.